The Luderitz Region is a must-visit destination loved for its famous wild horses of the Namib and the eerie Ghost Town of Kolmanskop. Stay awhile in hotels and accommodation as part of top Namibia packages featuring tours to Etosha National Park, Damaraland, and the Waterberg Plateau National Park. The wild and free horses roam the sparsely vegetated plains of the desert in small groups and drink from the trough at Garub, some 20 km west of Aus. Luderitz hotels and accommodation guide. Rates, pictures, and special deals to all of Luderitz’s accommodation establishments. Book online.
Kolmanskop became one of the richest towns in Africa during a diamond boom in 1910, but all inhabitants deserted the town in the following decades. Kolmanskop became a ghost town in the red dunes desert and is loved by tourists who wander through the abandoned buildings filled with moving sand.
Luderitz is a quaint Namibian town with a very good harbor on the wild west coast. Founded in 1883, it started as a trading post – fishing and Guano harvesting were the main industries here until diamonds were discovered in 1909. It’s a port that developed near Shark Island, originally a ghastly concentration camp and today a campsite. The Luderitz museum and the town are named after Adolf Lüderitz, founder of the German South West Africa colony.
You may find Mineral Gypsum roses lying on the beach – beautiful, perfectly formed crystal rose-shaped structures are naturally created mainly from the mineral gypsum.
Contact Voyage2Africa for your next overland tour to Namibia, Luderitz.
